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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
98.
AN ARCHAIC JADE SWORD POMMEL (SHOU)
Late Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 4th-3rd Century B.C.
the thick disc finely carved with a band of comma-spirals in relief around the domed center decorated with ‘C’-scrolls and a crosshatched star motif, the underside with a deep circular groove for attachment, the white jade stained with iron-rust.
Diameter 1 7⁄8 inches (4.6 cm)
Ex J.J. Lally & Co., 1993 catalogue no. 83
Compare the jade sword pommel of this form carved with very similar decoration illustrated by Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1989, p. 45, no. 4.
東周晚期 玉劍首 徑4.6厘米
來源 藍理捷1993特展圖錄第83號
98.
AN ARCHAIC JADE SWORD POMMEL (SHOU)
Late Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 4th-3rd Century B.C.
Diameter 1 7⁄8 inches (4.6 cm)